Re: [Mesa-dev] headers for src/asm_mmx.c

[Holger Waechtler]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Thomas Tanner wrote:

> > I would be happy, if we could do something similiar with the FX/NV/G200
> > driver - Mesa would become a generic super-driver similiar to the SVGA
> > X-Server, which decides at runtime, which hardware driver it will use.
> 
>  I think that'd be a very bad idea.
>  Let's try to avoid monolithic designs and select drivers via configure
>  options or, even better, make Mesa modular (a nice alliteration :) !
>  I could add portable dlopen support to Mesa, if you like.
>  

Who says, that our super driver is not able to load it's subdrivers
dynamically ??

(could you explain, how dlopen() is used ?? - works it on non-Unix
platforms (MacOS, Dos, Windows) ?? -- if not, we could put some #ifdef's
around it and link at unsupported platforms all subdrivers in the
library.)


- Holger



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